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The message that went out from this meeting to the world is that United States credibility in dealing with our allies has taken a real hit.

And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

Make no mistake about it, that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security.