Following the U.S. and Israel’s initiation of joint combat operations early Saturday, Murphy accused President Donald Trump of risking the lives of American soldiers for a war the “nobody in this country is asking for.”

“It won’t be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die,” Murphy told Margaret Brennan. “It’s going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war.”

Trump seemed nonchalant about the possibilities of American casualties as he addressed military action against Iran in an eight-minute video posted to Truth Social on Saturday morning.

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war,” he said of the operations, which U.S. Central Command said had killed three U.S. troops and “seriously wounded” five others in a statement on Sunday.

President Donald Trump admitted "American heroes" will die while announcing U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran in a Saturday address.

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Murphy, a member of the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, went on to call the White House’s dreams of democratizing and disarming Iran beyond unrealistic, reminding Brennan how Trump’s own intelligence agencies have said the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other high ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will only allow a more militant faction taking power.

“We’re not going to get a democracy, we’re going to get an even worse Iranian leadership,” said the senator. “We’re gonna have Americans dying, and the end result is going to be hard line leadership continues in Iran and we don’t get rid of their nuclear program. That’s a moral and strategic disaster for the country.”