"This is their job. It is to go out and collect information on very targeted individuals."
"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 thin..."
"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."
"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."
"I just don't think the administration has done a great job explaining this timeline."
"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 think that is prudent and appropriate."
"I am really interested in specifically how you see that securing of that border coming together, with what technologies, what kind of wall."
"I intend to introduce legislation entitled the Border Funding Act of 2017 that would put a 2 percent tax on those remittances."
"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..."