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Below is an interview with Senator Mark Warner, Democrat Virginia, which was broadcast on “confronting the nation with Margaret Brennan” on September 7, 2025.

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Margaret Brennan: Join us now by the best Democrats in the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner. Good morning, Senator, it is good to be here personally. You are known to do your Intel, but you are also in a number of other committees. We were just talking about the economy. Do you agree that basically, the economic data issued by the United States is probably mainly defective?

Sen. Mark Warner: No, I think BLS has been the gold standard for years, not only in this country, but all over the world. Can there be repairs? Certainly, but it is irony to shoot the ruling, the president shoots the head and cut the employees. Not sure how to improve data quality. The president promised that the golden age is American workers. We have decreased 80,000 manufacturing functions since the beginning of his term. We are essentially a flat employment position. I do not think that the families who listen, if anyone, have a family, or a family member in the college or immediately leave the college. You know what the difficult job market is to find this. One of the things that I would like to hear from Kevin, frankly, from more economists, is that we are about to see the greatest functionality of the job in our history, I think, in terms of dedication to artificial intelligence. These are several times a kind of function that the college drives. I mean, think again five years ago, we said to every child, if you want to get a good job, look for a computer programmer. Those will be some of the first functions that were ignored and eliminated. So I am only, I am afraid that this focus is on those who keep the result when I think the American public realizes that the labor market is difficult, especially with regard to manufacturing functions, there is no golden age. ,,

Margaret Brennan: Well, there is also a basic reshaping of the economy, if you are talking about artificial intelligence. So at this point quickly, there were more than ten technology mourners in the White House this week, including some of these giants in the area of ​​artificial intelligence. Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, CEO of Google, Apple CEO, and throughout the table, he praised the Trump president to invest in the manufacture of chips. Amnesty International, do you deserve- do you think it deserves this praise?

Sen. Warner: Well, I can tell you that the manufacture of chips came because of a draft law that I am John Cornene under the chips’s infrastructure law –

Margaret Brennan: The two parties.

Sen. Warner: completely $ 52 billion from the two parties. President Trump was at times that criticized this law. Now he, I think, sends a little mixed message, because some investments in this law would have gone to Intel, our last meaning, made useful for potatoes. He took a stake in the stock there, which is discussed, although I think get some profits –

Margaret Brennan: taxpayers have 10 % of the company now.

Sen. Warner: But this is the strange thing, while trying to support the manufacture of American chips, at the same time, has stopped any of the restrictions imposed, for example, NVIDIA H-20 chips for sale to China. So, what- how do we read this if we want to say that we want to build the American ability, yes, make sure our progress against China. Well, why do you sell some of our edge chips to China? It is a complete contradiction in politics.

Margaret Brennan: The White House says, Oh, it’s not great chips, so we can sell them. This is what the Trade Secretary said. However, the intelligence, as Vice -Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, must have an supervision authority, and on the law, Intel agencies must inform that committee of its operations. The CIA must tell you about secret procedures. This is an important type of supervision, but last week, you said that you were banned from attending a meeting at the National Geographical Intelligence Agency in Virginia. Why do you think you were banned? Your Republican cleaned you promised that this will not continue.

Sen. Warner: I have made these visits to our Intel facilities during the ten years that were either chairman or deputy intelligence committee. They are part of the natural path. You can get a chance to see the workforce, where they work. You can see the new, newest and most wonderful things, and often I can hold a meeting in the city hall, because I am not only a chair or vice president, but many of these facilities are in Virginia.

Margaret Brennan: Right.

Sen. Warner: Then, this meeting was literally on books. The normal course of business. This unusual individual, Laura Lumer, is so controversial right-wing blogger that the Trump administration did not put it in the cabinet or- the deniers of September 11. She was an anti -Muslims individual. It was very desirable to work with white nationalists, however it seems to have the ear of President Trump.

Margaret Brennan: She speaks to senior advisers, including Foreign Minister.

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Sen. Warner: The first National Security Adviser for National Security was expelled because she went after him, the head of the National Security Agency that I saw recently, was shot at General Tim Hawk. She claimed that the shooting. Recently, we have seen 37 INTEL members losing their security classification, which mainly puts them from the job. She boasts all this on her blog. I mean, it really raises the question, is she in fact the prosecutor or war minister as of this morning? Is it the true director of national intelligence? What I went to is something that has nothing to do with this, and she said, why can we allow some people against Trump in the intelligence facility? Strange enough, on Tuesday night, social cancellation was canceled. Now we will not defend it. I spoke to my Republican colleagues –

Margaret Brennan: Right, is this Tom Coton not happening again?

Sen. Warner: I will hold these meetings. I raised it with cotton. I raised it with other intelligence members. You want to talk about something dangerous, you restrict the ability of Congress to do supervision, especially with this administration, and then fly blind. In the area of ​​intelligence in particular, not every member can do this. Those who are the senior Intel committee, we are limited numbers, we are eyes and ears the rest of the Senate to do this supervision. They try to restrict this America will be less safe. We are going, I will create that.

Margaret Brennan: So, he told me about this campaign that would have been witnessing in Latin America, where the United States graduated from this drug boat. The Secretary Rubio, your former colleague of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says if you are on a boat full of cocaine, fentian, or anything heading to the United States, you are an immediate threat to the United States. He says this is a justification for national security to carry out an unclear timeline. Have you communicated with Rubio about this? Do you know anything about how to formulate it here with the intelligence community.

Sen. Warner: Well, first and foremost, the Maduro regime in Venezuela is bad, and it is clear that we need to do everything in our power to stop the fentian. We were not aware of this. This was DOD, it was not the Intel project. It was the Ministry of Defense project. But my fear is that there are still international laws for the sea on how to modify this type of boat, the shooting is supposed to be from a warning shot. You are supposed to try to take it safely. I understand, this boat, none of these procedures are followed, and I will get the full summary this week. But what I feel worried is if we put the sailors in the way of harm by violating international law, unless there are appropriate appointments, can this return and harm these sailors? The sailors were doing their work.

Margaret Brennan: But to your knowledge, this is a completely military operation. Do not use the origins of intelligence?

Sen> Warner: Yes, we are not –

Margaret Brennan: Because the administration says they know everyone who was on this boat, they had “great clarity and sincerity.”

Sen. Warner: Well, I would like to see that data. But this, again, goes to this point. This type of procedure should be viewed to the intelligence community. I am a member of the so -called eight gang. These are the people who are supposed to obtain absolute and only secret things that the president gets. I did not get a briefing.

Margaret Brennan: There is no briefing on this?

Sen. Warner: There is no briefing on this.

Margaret Brennan: Do they share regular information with an eight gang?

Sen. Warner: There is an exchange of information, the level of participation and the scheduling of participation, for example, we were in the Iran bombings. We were not notified in advance, my colleagues were notified. When you start supervising and who gets joint information on a partisan basis, this type of cooking in books and intelligence How did we get to the war in Iraq in the first place?

Margaret Brennan: Senator Warner, thank you for your time. today. We will return with a lot of confrontation with the nation. So stay with us.