Mike Rogers

The goal of radical Islamist movement, whether it is al-Qaeda or whether it is ISIS does have a global objective to it. Replace western civilization.

If the political situation in Iraq does not enfranchise the Sunnis, then you have a potential rise again of a radical Islamist organization in Syria.

If you cut diplomats, you are going to have to buy more bullets.

I thank the chairman for his leadership and commitment Mr. Chair, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Alabama? There was no objection. The Acting…

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Mr. Kinzinger said that he takes national security as his top issue. It is the top responsibility for every single Member of Congress.

Some critical missions are impeded by jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with DHS on enforcement of Federal law.

One of the things that my friend and colleague from Texas, Ms. Jackson Lee, requested information about a little while ago was whether or not Mexico or South America is going to help pay for the wall.

It would generate right at a $1 billion a year, half of that coming from Mexico, the other half from the other South American countries.

If we fail to adapt the speed of relevance, our focus will lose.

We cannot expect success fighting tomorrow's conflicts with yesterday's weapons or equipment.

I think that would be a big mistake. It would create more chaos than it solves and it would show that they don't have a strategy other than I'm leaving.

I think the broader strategy here, Anderson, is they have not gotten this right. The Obama administration didn't get it right. And I don't think Trump is getting it right.

Well, I mean, in military par lens, I'm sure it met their objectives. And I think that's what he was talking about. I'm not sure it weighed too much into the mission accomplished.

I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion that there is little price to pay here.

As administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, do you have the authority to secure the Southwestern Border of the United States if you wanted to do it?

I mean, it will happen. They're not going to be happy about this, because they want to get it right. They want to be able to tell their people why this is important and why we need to thwart the use of chemical weapons.

You need to articulate it or at least demonstrate it.

Listen, I was with Trump when he said, we shouldn't telegraph what we're doing tactically.

We need to keep up the pressure to denuclearize.

That confusion could be hurtful not only to our allies, but it emboldens our adversaries as well.

I agree you don't want us to be predictable on what your strategy on the ground is, but you absolutely need to be predictable on what your intentions are.

The only way we're going to lead that solution is if we are there following through with our commitments to again to our allies in the region.

It sends a very poor signal to our allies, very poor signal to our adversaries.

The President is going to win because that's exactly where he's determined to go.