Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said today there should be more checks on President Donald Trump’s ability to intervene militarily around the world than the president’s own “morality.”“We’re depending on Donald Trump’s morality to decide whether we put troops in harm’s way. That is why our country was founded on the notion that one individual can’t take our country to war. The paper also reported this weekend that the president has been briefed on new options for strikes in Iran as unrest mounts amid anti-regime protests. Warner acknowledged that leaders like Nicolás Maduro are “bad guys,” but added, “the last thing I thought was Donald Trump was going to be the world’s policeman for his moral view of the world. “I want to know what the president talking about.

Source: CNN January 11, 2026 15:20 UTC