Chris Murphy: ‘C’mon’ Michael Waltz Was ‘Fired,’ ‘He Is Not the National Security Adviser’

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WALTZ: “Well, the reporting, senator, is fake news, which shouldn‘t surprise anyone. The president was clear. His announcement was, ‘I will nominate Mr. Waltz,’ and the vice president was — “
ROSEN: “You know, fake news can’t be the answer to everything.”
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Collins: “I wonder what that answer said to you.”
MURPHY: “I mean, come on, he was fired. He‘s not doing that job. Marco Rubio is publicly acknowledging that he now holds the role of both secretary of state and the national security advisor. So, once again, you have the guy, who we are going to send to the U.N. to stand for U.S. credibility, lying to the committee and to the public. He‘s not doing the job of national security advisor. He was let go from that position. And yet he‘s been drawing his salary, which also tells you that these guys are just not on the level when they talk about government efficiency. If they‘ve been paying a salary to somebody who hasn‘t been showing up to the job for the last several months, they aren‘t terribly serious about being good stewards of the taxpayer dollars.”
Collins: “So you believe he lied today?”
MURPHY: “I mean, he‘s not doing the job. Marco Rubio is the current national security advisor. He is not running National Security Council processes. He is — he is not the national security advisor, and that‘s not really up for debate.”
Collins: “It sounds like you plan to to vote against him, I would assum?”
MURPHY: “Yeah. I mean, I‘m voting against him for a number of reasons, but I think at the heart of it for me is the fact that today, you know, he essentially advertised that he was going to the U.N. to try to dismantle some of the most important things that the U.N. does. And, you know, that‘s par for the course in this administration. They nominate a secretary of education who wants to destroy federal support for public schools. They nominate somebody to head up our vaccine programs who wants to destroy support for publicly funded vaccines. And they‘re sending someone to the U.N. who wants to dismantle some of the most important humanitarian and peacekeeping functions of the U.N.. So, no, I don‘t think we should be sending people to the U.N. who don‘t support the basic foundations of the U.N.‘s mission.”