The sharpest of the criticism of the classified briefing came from two of President Trump's Senate allies: GOP Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul. Lee said afterward that it was the 'worst briefing I've had on a military issue' during his 9 years in the Senate.
The sharpest of the criticism came from two of President Donald Trump's Senate allies: Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Lee said after the briefing that it was the"worst briefing I've had on a military issue" during his nine years in the Senate.
"Senate Democrats pressed for specifics of the targets and timeline, and while senators said the timeline was described as within"days," the information provided in Wednesday's briefing did not explicitly back that up, according to Democrats.At one point, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, pressed on the imminence of the attack. Several senators said they came away with the sense her specific question remained unanswered.
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