Rep. Jim Himes: I Had ‘Zero Outreach’ from the Trump Admin About Its Military Action in Venezuela

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BRENNAN: “You are part of that gang of eight, which means that information about these secret operations is statutorily intended to be shared with you as part of it’s very small group. Given that. And what you should know, can you clearly explained what the United States is doing.”

HIMES: “Yeah by the way, I was delighted to hear the term god German of the Senate intelligence committee has been in regular contact with administration. I’ve had zero outreach and no Democrat that I’m aware of his that any outreach whatsoever, so apparently we’re not a world where the legal obligation to keep the Congress and formed only applies to to your party, which is really something. But you know, look I know exactly where we are Margaret we’re in the euphoria period of acknowledging across the board that maduro was a bad guy and that our military is absolutely incredible. This is exactly the euphoria we felt in two thousand and two when our military took down the Taliban in Afghanistan in two thousand and three, when our military took out saddam hussein and and 20 eleven, when we helped remove if Walmart khadafi from power in Libya. These we’re very, very bad people by the way, much much worse than maduro and Venezuela, which was never a significant national security threat to the United States, but we’re in that euphoria phase and what we learned the day after the euphoria phase that it it’s an awful lot easier to break a country. Then it is to actually do with the press resident promise to do, which is to run it, and so again, let’s let let’s let my Republican colleagues enjoy their day of euphoria but they’re going to wake up tomorrow morning, knowing what my god there is no plan here, any more than there wasn’t Afghanistan, Iraq, war in Libya”