Mark Kelly Tears Into Trump, Warns Pentagon with Chilling 'One-Liner' in an explosive speech

[0:01] thank you everybody uh let me try to explain where we are briefly i don't want to repeat [0:08] what my colleagues have already said but a week ago when fisa expired so what does that mean for [0:17] the american people so if you're sitting at home in a place like arizona or maybe arkansas or south [0:24] dakota or all the other states like what does this mean to you as an individual how does it affect [0:30] you and your family well think about it this way that through this law fisa we are able to gather [0:40] intelligence from our foreign adversaries foreign nationals overseas through a number of different [0:50] ways and with that intelligence we have on a number of occasions prevented bad things happening to the [1:02] american people terrorist attacks sometimes here sometimes overseas it is an incredibly valuable [1:10] tool that donald trump doesn't seem to care about and he's completely messed this up then on top of [1:19] this he nominated for one of the most critical jobs in our country the director of national intelligence [1:28] a person that by any measure is unqualified for the job i was thinking about this a few weeks ago [1:36] when bill pulte's name first came up if you would if you were to make a list of the one million most [1:45] qualified americans to be the director of national intelligence bill pulte would not be on that list [1:53] it is shocking that he put him forward for consideration by the senate intelligence committee [2:04] so the president has been using this sort of like a game but this is our national security and our [2:14] national security should never be a game and it shouldn't be a bargaining chip and over the last [2:20] couple days he's now inserted the save act into this process what that means for my constituents [2:27] in arizona i've got hundreds of thousands of tribal members that often don't have a birth certificate they [2:36] don't have a passport even though they vote by mail they often have to make a 75 mile trip to even get [2:43] to a mailbox a polling place to vote in person it's out of the question he's trying to disenfranchise [2:53] millions of americans from voting and he's inserting that into this process so you have the combination [3:00] of americans are becoming less safe and he's now inserted weakening our democracy into this so i mean [3:10] my point here is the president has lost his way on this issue he should stop doing things at 4 a.m and [3:17] tweeting without sharing his plans with maybe some people around him who could advise him but this has [3:27] become a complete debacle and now it's up to the white house to figure out a path forward here we had [3:35] a path forward as of yesterday and today we don't and that's because of this president and his advisors [4:01] well i'm not going to reveal confidences but i can tell you that when pulte was first announced people in [4:10] donald trump's national security team i think were shocked you then saw comments of my republican [4:20] partners who almost to a person said he was unqualified we worked together to try to provide [4:34] two or three different off-ramps those were not taken it appeared that the pressure got so great [4:44] and the the choice was so unqualified that the president stepped back and said well he's only [4:52] going to be acting we made clear that we needed to see a serious replacement i was going to give [5:04] i had tough questions for jay clinton he was i can assure you i even jay clinton had been confirmed many [5:10] democrats were going to vote against him that's the right but to take somebody who at least had the [5:16] national security experience and had a background and has not got a record of of disclosing classified [5:22] information and then to have him yanked unceremoniously in the middle of the night you know [5:32] mark keller's right debacle was an understatement here uh playing as the leader said playing with [5:38] our national security this way it's outrageous i mean could you imagine the um some of my friends [5:45] on the republican side who are viewed as like the security hawks if this had been a democratic president [5:52] doing these kind of antics they'd be threatening to burn the house down you want to add something [5:58] yeah i gotta go to a leadership meeting i gotta run yes right no right here right here well any questions [6:09] for me and then i gotta run a leadership meeting yeah there's a simple way yeah the simple it's on [6:16] our republican colleagues to work with us to find a a capable director not a not someone who's a menace [6:26] and second then to work with us on renewing fisa it's up to them it's up to them this is republican [6:33] president republican house republican senate all screwing up with each other they've got to come to an [6:40] agreement and they've got to have the courage to buck the president who clearly who clearly doesn't [6:46] want a dni uh director and doesn't want fisa renewed all he wants is pulte pulte it is so obvious to [7:06] everybody that pulte to to have pulte at the hands of the gears with these tools would be dangerous to [7:15] america and even our republican colleagues know it senator warner i gotta go well it's seven listen [7:23] ma'am ma'am well first of all you know one of the things we didn't know um when fisa lap would will [7:30] the telcos and the participants still participate so far they are number one number two the concerns i [7:39] have about bill pulte frankly have less to do with 702 than the national security risk of showing [7:50] our nation's top secrets to an individual who's shown no respect for law for privacy the idea that [8:02] he would weaponize mortgage information and the reward is you want to give him access to our national [8:09] secrets that if that is your position or anybody else that is the ultimate irresponsible position [8:14] and it's not going to meet america's needs yes sir yes sir let me let me just make sure that you hear [8:21] what the offer was at the end of last week i offered five weeks i didn't change any surveillance tools [8:29] all i said was there has to be some oversight and some accountability that was a stronger position [8:35] than anybody had on offer and i made it specifically for a response to your question yes sir