Nathan A. Sales: “Congressman, that's not normal, which is why the White House retracted that order that you referred to.”

I think the threat is significant. We've heard about several on-going assassination plots.

Let's be clear. The Islamic Republic is responsible for the attack in Israel.

They are not a reliable counterterrorism partner. So I would instead focus on, No. 1, continuing to apply sanctions pressure to the Taliban until they uphold their commitments under the Doha Agreement to break with terrorists.

Can you imagine what would happen--I'm interested--if we were to start granting those from Gaza access into the United States?