During an interview on the Thursday broadcast of MS Now’s “Morning Joe,” which took place that day before the Jobs report was released, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he would allow the Trump administration to “take drugs on most of these boats, possibly all of them.” But instead of blowing up the ships, they should stop them and prove to the people that there are drugs on them and said that “To say the least, America’s history of intervention in Central America and South America is mixed. And I fear that we are, again, at one of these Trump attempts to distract the country because he is worried about a failing economy, his policies failing, the Epstein files.”
Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked, “Is there any evidence that the smugglers had what they claim they had on the boats that were blown up?
Warner replied, “I believe there is good intelligence that we can follow drug routes. We know – and I will even allow the Administration to admit that there are drugs on most of these boats, possibly all, of them. But why not stop and prove to me, and more importantly, prove to the American people and prove to the countries in the region that there is a base here, not just blow them up arbitrarily? To say the least. For, the U.S. history of intervention in Central America and South America is mixed. And I fear, again, we have one of these attempts by Trump to potentially distract the country because he is worried about a failing economy, his policies are failing, the Epstein files and this venture in the Caribbean, we need a lot more information and so far, we haven’t got it.
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