Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued against the intelligence community's assessment on Sunday, stating that the terrorist-designated Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, is a proxy of Nicolás Maduro's government.

The intelligence community are "wrong," Rubio told "Face the Nation's" Margaret Brennan.

"In fact, the FBI agrees with me that they are. We, the FBI, agrees that not only is Tren de Aragua exported by the Venezuelan regime, but in fact, if you go back and see a Tren de Aragua member, all the evidence is there, and it's growing every day, was actually contracted to murder an opposition member, I believe, in Chile a few months ago.

"So one of the warnings out there by the FBI is not simply that Tren de Aragua are a terrorist organization, but one that has already been operationalized, to murder ... an opposition member in another country."

In early April, the National Intelligence Council determined in a memo that "the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with [Tren de Aragua] and is not directing [Tren de Aragua] movement to and operations in the United States."

Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired the two top officials at the National Intelligence Council who oversaw the memo — Michael Collins, the agency's acting chair, and council Vice Chair Maria Langan-Riekhof.

Rubio added that "there's no doubt in our mind, and in my mind, and in the FBI's assessment that this is a group that the regime in Venezuela uses, not just to try to destabilize the United States, but to project power, like they did by murdering a member of the opposition in Chile."

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