Rubio continued: "How can we judge whether their mitigation standards are appropriate if we don't have material to compare it against, and we can't even make an assessment on whether they've properly risk-assessed it?" Mark Warner and Marco Rubio sit for an interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. You know, here's the bottom line: If, in fact, those documents were very sensitive materials, were sensitive, and they pose a counterintelligence or national security threat, then the intelligence agencies are tasked with the job of coming up with ways to mitigate that." Sens. "These are probably materials we already have access to," he said. On Thursday, Rubio rejected the notion that sharing details with the top-ranking Intelligence Committee members in Congress would in any way impede the Justice Department's investigations. Warner and Rubio said the meeting left them unsatisfied, citing a lack of detail and uncertainty over when they will receive a briefing on whether any intelligence was compromised when the materials were mishandled. Asked whether they had a timeline for when they might gain access to the records, Warner said "no." Mark Warner and Marco Rubio on "Face the Nation"ĭue to the ongoing Justice Department investigations, the information that prompted the probes has not been shared with Congress. "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." Our job is to make sure there's not an intelligence compromise," Warner said. "Our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those. Mark Warner, the Democratic chair of the Intelligence Committee, and Marco Rubio, the Republican vice chair, stressed the importance of seeing the records for themselves to determine whether there has been a national security breach. In a joint interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan that aired on Sunday, Sens. Washington - The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee are urging the director of national intelligence to provide the panel with access to the documents marked classified that were found in the homes of President Biden and former President Donald Trump.
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