‘That’s a Pretty Scary Thing for You To Say’: Erin Burnett Disturbed When GOP Rep. Says Trump Admin. Keeping Congress in the Dark on Boat Bombings

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) took CNN’s Eric Burnett by surprise by telling her that the Trump administration has largely kept a key congressional committee out of the loop regarding U.S. boat bombings in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have boasted about the ongoing U.S. military strikes on vessels in international waters that they claim are crewed by “narcoterrorists” who are trafficking drugs from Venezuela and Colombia. The administration has provided no evidence for its claims, which, even if true, would be extremely dubious legal grounds for bombing the vessels. At least 57 people, mostly Venezuelans and Colombians, have been killed in the strikes. The president has even suggested the U.S. may bomb Venezuela.

Trump has signaled a desire to see regime change in Venezuela, going back to at least 2019.

On Wednesday’s OutFront, Burnett asked Turner about an upcoming meeting of the House Armed Services Committee, on which Turner serves.

“I know you support that mission,” she said. “Obviously, the president has also talked about land strikes. There’s been a lot of speculation about what this administration could do. You have supported, so far, the mission on the boats. I don’t want to take it further than that, because I don’t know if you agree with more than that. But what are the specific questions you’re gonna ask them?”

“Well, I think first off, I don’t think anybody has openly and publicly stated a full support of what the administration is doing because no one has [received] a full presentation yet from the administration of what they’re doing to support it,” Turner replied. “I think what people have said–”

“By the way,” Burnett interjected. “Can I just say that’s a pretty scary thing for you to say, considering that you’re on that committee.”

“Right,” Turner agreed. “What I have said and what I think the American public supports is that the administration’s statement that the drug trade has to be impacted… is important, and it threatens the lives of the American public. And I think that certainly is important. I don’t think that Congress has received the information that it needs to. And I do think that there are serious concerns as to both the legal construct as to what the administration is doing, and there needs to be more information that’s provided to Congress. And I think both the logistics and the intelligence information needs to be shared more, more broadly.”

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