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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) spoke with reporters on Thursday ahead of a briefing from Trump administration officials on Iran.
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00:00Don't you feel that any comprehensive analysis should include the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and what do you make of her absence here today?
00:10I wish we were hearing from everyone who had detailed knowledge that is essential for us, the American people, to hear.
00:18All of the intelligence community ought to be involved, and I'm disappointed that we may be lacking some of the real factual background that's necessary to evaluate
00:29how much of the job remains to be done in stopping the nuclear bomb.
00:34Clearly, there was extensive destruction, but whether and how the bomb could reconstitute is an essential question in which all of the intelligence community ought to be involved.
00:49There was a report that the Trump administration wants to brief senators less on classified information, hold these briefings less often.
00:58Have you spoken with your Republican colleagues?
01:01I have spoken to some of my Republican colleagues, and I think there is a very bipartisan view that the American people, not just Congress, but all of the public, deserves to hear more than that.
01:14Everything we're hearing today, a lot of it should be before the Trump administration.
01:20If the administration is withholding essential facts, it's a disservice to the brave and skilled American military members to accomplish a feat that was left in the annals of military history with skill and daring, and they owe it to those military to be completely forthcoming about how successful this strike was.
01:43So last night, Todd Blanche said that he would be willing to prosecute a member of Congress, or was a member of Congress, who he had an initial assessment of the intelligence report on the hand of Obama.
01:56Do you think that could have been leaked from Congress?
01:57Do you think those comments are appropriate?
01:58I have no idea.
01:59I have no idea.
02:00It's good.
02:01I don't get it.
02:02I've read about it just like everyone else.
02:03You know, five minutes out, like they have.
02:04Threatening to prosecute a member of Congress or something like that, do you think that's appropriate?
02:17Um, if a member of Congress broke the law, they should be prosecuted, but I have no idea to believe that a member of Congress who is responsible for having a level of administration and officials saying.
02:31It's a series of results that also said he's got a number.
02:35Oh, no.
02:36Yes.
02:37It's not quite on the far end.
02:38I have no idea.
02:39Yes, it's at all.
02:40But I'm not saying.
02:41It's a single result also said he turns out a number of things.
02:42I've got a number.
02:43Right, guys.
02:44You can see someone else.
02:45Have you seen a number of things?
02:46I don't even know.
02:47I just don't know.
02:48Like, I don't know.
02:49I don't know.
02:51I don't know.
02:52Yeah.
02:53I want to see someone else.
02:54Our employer our company even has a number of things to be able to do.
02:56But we're saying, you know, not doing the same or something,
02:58I've got a number one.

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