Chris Murphy actually said...

"I mean, they are catastrophic withdrawals of funding, and another signal, a very clear signal, to the Russians that, 'We are out, and you should fill the void.'"

"It strains credibility to suggest that it is outside of the realm of possibility or completely unfair or unwarranted for Kim to read that as an advertisement that we are going to repeat the mistake th..."

"But, how can you do that when you are cutting funding to those programs?"

"They see an opportunity, as we withdraw from the Balkans, to essentially set up a new front, a new hybrid scenario, like we have seen in Ukraine."