The most important thing is, we have come to agreement that we ought to look at all of these issues. We ought to investigate all of them.

You know, there's no way to reconcile it. I had hope perhaps naively that once the directors spoke, and you had a source that was very much in position to know of any basis that existed for this, that the president would say, OK, enough…

I think he should have done it, even-handed manner, if he's going to talk about one, he needed to talk about both.

And for the president to say otherwise is just another falsehood labeled on falsehood.

Absolutely confident there was nothing in this DOJ report to Congress that would confirm what President Trump has been saying.

The president's statements before and his tweets since leading right up to today have no basis in fact.

Congress must invest in our national security, which includes development and diplomacy programs, alongside a strong defense.

I urge the Subcommittee to support economic development, military parity, and refugee settlement in our important regional partner, Armenia.

I think the answer is to figure out, if they haven't been, how do we retool in the modern information and propaganda age.

I want to highlight the importance of fully funding the Broadcasting Board of Governors and specifically prioritizing counter-propaganda broadcasting.

He's certainly prepared for the question and I don't see any reason why he can't answer it. He may even welcome the opportunity.

We're going to have an open hearing now, this will be one of the topics we'll be able to ask the director of the FBI very directly.

I think, you know, they have no way to defend these remarks. They were so incendiary and out of bounds, the best they could do is say, let's give it to the investigative committees and please don't ask us about it any more.

I have really no idea what caused President Trump to assert that his predecessor was engaged in that kind of criminality. It seems completely divorced from reality.

I'm certainly aware of the public reports going back now some months about an alleged connection between Alfa Bank servers and potentially a server linked with the Trump administration.

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We have, I think, reached no conclusion nor could we in terms of issues of collusion because we haven't called in a single witness or viewed a single document on that issue as of yet.

How the Russians operate, how they seek to exert their inference covertly, whether they do that through third parties, individuals, business people, directly, electronically, through encryption, there are a whole host of issues that need…

It certainly begs the question of whether Flynn was doing exactly what the president wanted, whether with the president's knowledge, with the president's approval.

This is not healthy skepticism as they would like to portray it. This is very unhealthy essentially avoidance of the facts because they don't suit the president-elect's interests.

If Trump was as smart as he claims to be, he'd understand how little he knows and how much he'll come to defend on the intel community.

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I think it's outrageous that the National Guard soldiers are being asked to repay bonuses that they had every right to expect.