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.

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.

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

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

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

I think that is prudent and appropriate.

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.

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…