We will maintain the quality of the human material that comes in and we will maintain the training.

they are certainly very angry about that.

Has anyone ever asked you now or in the past, this administration or any administration, to issue a statement that you knew to be false?

I understand fully the need of the President of the United States to be able to have conversations with members of the intelligence community that are protected, particularly in a classified setting.

the issue of oversight on both your independence and on your credibility falls on us.

the ability of this community to function depends both on its credibility that its work that it's doing is in the national security interest of the United States, and also the importance of its independence--that it is not an extension of politics, no matter which administration is at play.

This is going to be an area of continued and massive growth, not just in personnel, but in the ability to house them.

The ability of a child to learn is not simply based on the classroom experience.

It strikes me, this whole debate about education, I approach it as someone who went to public school my entire life, who would not have been able to go to college without Pell Grants and student loans.

if a child is living in a dangerous neighborhood in substandard housing in a broken home, this child is going to struggle to learn, unless there are things in place to assist them both inside and outside of school.

We should never do that. That is one of the things that makes us unique.

I want to make it clear; I will not back down on this issue until the Pentagon meets this commitment for the good of our nation.

Should the current climate escalate to threatening levels, do you believe the Military Construction requests for the EUCOM AOR will allow for a potential rapid buildup of forces?

To mitigate the risk of a terrorist attack, accident, or natural disaster, the U.S. Navy will homeport an East Coast carrier in Mayport, Florida.

Yet it is my view, and I just visited a facility here recently, that they are both underfunded.

It is not strategically acceptable to base four and soon to be five of our nation's most expensive assets in one location.

Marco Rubio has an opportunity here to maybe be the Howard Baker, similar to the Watergate investigation, and say what did the president know and when did he know it.

Sessions recused himself, which led to a special counsel.