Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) pushed back on President Donald Trump‘s Thursday night speech on election interference by questioning CIA Director John Ratcliffe‘s role overseeing election intelligence as Trump’s first-term director of national intelligence.

Trump made a highly anticipated address to the nation on Thursday night, during which he claimed that the Beltway “deep state” suppressed attempts from China to interfere in the 2020 election. Trump announced the declassification of intelligence documents he said supported his claims of Chinese interference and his claim that the deep state “worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling,” which Trump said included “what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.”