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U.S. officials and others were telling us that it's likely that in this case, the North Koreans, as they've done before will use this young man as leverage.

I commend the gentleman from Texas for his speech and the gentleman from Nebraska who spoke earlier for his introduction of this resolution, along with my colleague, Anna Eshoo, from California. And, of course, I commend Chris Smith for a…

In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of challenges and crises that we confront as we do today.

We want to bring back the customer service piece.

We need these legislative fixes to fix the program once and for all.

Having the providers in place is hugely important.

I think you are accurate. The ARCH program predated Choice. It has worked extremely well.

The problem is our reputation has been hurt incredibly.

We are working hard to repair all the damage that happened up there.

To answer your question as to whether or not there was intervention from a higher level of the White House in this particular incident, the answer is absolutely not.

We clearly want to leverage all of the capabilities that exist in the entire system, Senator.

I certainly would say, Senator, that Russia's support and Iran's support of Assad has really emboldened him and empowered him to a degree.

Is it fair to say that when Russia and Iran came in to assist Assad, that changed the balance of power on the ground militarily in his favor?

We will need to work with our partners in the region to really counter the malign activity that we have seen Iran conduct over time.

I would say, clearly, the most dangerous near-term threat is ISIL or Daesh.

I am going to need to work with counsel and the OI&T on that.

It would not be acceptable because of bureaucracy and red tape to allow a person who we know is not sharing our values to continue with a direct veteran-facing position.

We should be able to get the care where they are.