John McCain

It is not a matter of whether. It is a matter of when.

It is clear that his goal is a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it to the United States of America.

This effort will reassure our regional partners and send a strong signal to potential adversaries of our persistent commitment to the region.

I urge Congress to repeal sequestration and to approve the proposed Defense Department budget.

I believe it is critical that we empower and engage countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia to protect their own waterways.

North Korea's nuclear and missile program is an immediate and grave national security threat.

While I believe that we should pursue and exhaust every diplomatic option to bring the North Korean regime to the negotiating table, those options are somewhat limited.

We would like to know from you also if you could write us a letter how we can fully utilize the assets of our uniformed military in keeping with the posse comitatus rule so that we can maximize border security.

By itself the tallest wall in the world will not help us if we choke off funding for non-military strategies to address the root causes of migration from Central America.

If we want to be far more effective, you would need the assets in order to do that.

I am talking about towers. I am talking about----

Sequestration will further limit the ability of the services to provide any resources to us.

We certainly have a lot more to do.

It seems to me to regain that position of strength, we need to give you some help. Is that right?

There is certainly a compelling argument for Vladimir Putin's disregard for most norms of behavior that Russia, post Soviet Union, used to adhere to or even during the Soviet Union times.

The Russians are in violation of the INF treaty.

I am hopeful that this consensus continues because this is a 20-year acquisition program extending well beyond this and future administrations.

EUCOM views Russia as a significant threat with mature and growing capabilities to conduct comprehensive and coordinated attacks in our AOR.

. . . the ground force permanently assigned to EUCOM is inadequate to meet the combatant command's directed mission to deter Russia from further aggression.

. . . our current force posture in Europe has been based on Russia as a strategic partner . . .

Why is it important that the NATO Intelligence Fusion Cell be collocated with EUCOM's Joint Intelligence Analysis Center?

Why can we not reconstitute something along those lines to get the message out?

I hope we will move that issue up on our priority list.

It would not help you any if we slashed the spending for the State Department.

We countered Russian propaganda during the Cold War with Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.