Chris Murphy actually said...

"If we are going to meet them on a playing field even strength then we need to reconcile----"

"He wants to disempower that nation economically and politically so that eventually they just give up and hand the keys back to a Kremlin-friendly government."

"What are the capacities that State does not have today that it needs to be able to compete?"

"Hubris is probably one of them, and so I appreciate your comment about humility."