This is their job. It is to go out and collect information on very targeted individuals.

Well, first of all, it was shocking the CIA has engaged in espionage.

I just don't think the administration has done a great job explaining this timeline.

It is not wrong to meet (inaudible) and I think it's really dangerous to try to say that diplomats are somehow all engaged in an intelligence operation.

My advice to them is take Russia as serious a threat as it is and get out in front of this thing and then just start laying out the case of how you're going to be tough on Russia and I think this thing goes away.

The ambassador's job is to meet with senior officials so they met with senior officials in the Obama administration, in the Bush administration, in the Clinton administration before that.

I think that is prudent and appropriate.

That seems to have been lost in all of this conversation.

Well, I think it's -- from what we just heard, I think the Senate is going to do that kind of investigation.

I intend to introduce legislation entitled the Border Funding Act of 2017 that would put a 2 percent tax on those remittances.

I am really interested in specifically how you see that securing of that border coming together, with what technologies, what kind of wall.

And some notion that that whole military command is somehow ceded itself to some politics between Obama and Trump is nuts. And we better get over this in a hurry.

I think this thing is completely and utterly ridiculous, that there's a political debate about a well-thought-out, well-planned -- and listen, if everything was perfect this would be a different world. It's not.

Again, I'm arguing that I agreed with President Obama in 2011, and I agree with the notion that you need a tougher security view.

I just think that it would have been smarter to bring those people in and walk through the process including by the way the attorney general, the acting attorney general to say how would you implement it and how do we do this in a way that…

I would argue probably not. And there were some things to do.

I do believe it contributed to the loss of life in Iraq, and I do believe it cost us problems in our diplomatic relations around the world.

There's not enough adjectives I certainly can't say it even here on cable TV how I feel about this decision.

Thirty-five years, he should have done every day of it.

The decision of how our Nation responds to a state-sponsored malicious cyberattack is one made by our Nation's leaders.

I have recommended to the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs that Elevation of U.S. Cyber Command can occur immediately upon the decision of the President.

I do not think it is in the best interest of any of our nations to be in this confrontational approach to doing business.

He said it would be Vladimir Putin and he doesn't believe a lot goes on without his knowing something that would influence politics in another country.

the Russians are the peer competitor to us. But I look at other nations. You look at China, for example, and the level of capability and investment they are making.

The way we have been handling it isn't working.