"I know Congress has been briefed as whole. I mean, the president had to hold this very tight and so there's a circle of individuals who need to know who have the ability to make decisions, but you have people like, honestly, Tlaib and Ilhan Omar that you can't brief Congress as a whole because those individuals you just simply can't trust."
"However, I do believe as we move forward with the operations and now that the operations are actually moving forward, I believe that the secretary it'll either come to be Rubio or Secretary Hegseth or maybe both will be coming to Congress and doing a classified briefing as a whole."
Following U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliation, Sen. Markwayne Mullin appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend to discuss the operation. Mullin, serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee, explained that only select members of Congress received advance briefing due to operational security. He attributed the limited briefing to concerns about trustworthiness among certain Democratic members, specifically naming Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Mullin stated that while full congressional briefings were restricted, he expects classified briefings from Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as operations continue.
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