Absolutely. And they're complicit in the precision guided weapons that struck the hospitals in Aleppo. Ask the White Helmets. I mean, that's a gross violation of the rules of war.

Yes, which I was puzzled by, because Syrian people obviously play no role in Bashar Assad remaining in power. It's the Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah and the Russians and the Iranians.

We have to understand who Vladimir Putin is, what he's all about do, and what he will do and what he understands. And what he understands is strength. And then best way to avoid further escalation is to show Vladimir Putin that his -- the…

I have great confidence in this team around the president of the United States. If I'd have been asked to name a team, I couldn't have named a better one than the one we've got.

If you ignore the lessons of history, then you will know that it is not in our interest eventually to sit by and see this kind of turmoil and genocide that's taking place.

The Committee meets today to receive testimony on the posture of U.S. Northern Command, Southern Command, and Strategic Command to inform its review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2017.

It's clear that you face a daunting array of security and governance challenges in the region, yet SOUTHCOM continues to suffer from persistent resource shortfalls that undermine efforts to confront these challenges.

This is a centipede assumed would drop every few days, the latest, the meeting in the Seychelles. Look, this is the requirement in my view why we need a select committee in order to get through all this, because there's a lot more shoes…

Bashar Assad and his friends, the Russians take note of what Americans say, I'm sure they took note of what our Secretary of State said just the other day that the Syrian people would be determining their own future themselves. One of the…

a return to great-power competition.

If we're really going to get to the bottom of these things, it's got to be done in a bipartisan fashion. And as far as I could tell, Congressman Nunes killed that.

These patriots were fully aware of their risks. Indeed, hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were detained in a revealing sign of the insecurity of the Putin regime.