Chris Murphy

This is a very short inventory of President Trump's insults towards our allies and partners.

Merkel, in particular, are trying to hold this deal together.

It still does not sound to me like a strategy about how you get the Europeans into a fundamentally different place than they are today.

The Europeans today are not interested in reimposing new nuclear sanctions on Iran.

I do not think that there is a lot of evidence that Russia's bad behavior is getting better.

I would argue that it is getting worse. You have seen significant democratic backsliding in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, that has been cheerled by the Russians.

I do think it is a convenient conceit to suggest that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a consequence of a set of American policies from 2008 to 2013.

It certainly sounds, when you say that Germany is turning against Angela Merkel, that you are trying to undermine the Chancellor.

Why is the President weighing in on the political circumstances of the Chancellor?

Listen, it is no secret, I think that our strategy with respect to Europe is a, just, total debacle.

I want to congratulate you on some recent good news with respect to an agreement between Greece and Macedonia, which hopefully paves the way for Macedonia to join some of the most important European and transatlantic institutions.

I'm reintroducing the HALOS Act because the most important thing we can do to help local entrepreneurs is knock down road blocks and make it easier for angel investors to put capital behind them.

Are you concerned about the humanitarian consequences?

Well, you cannot respect the work of the special envoy in the middle of an assault on Hodeidah.

So what have you recommended to the White House regarding the U.S. position on the assault on Hodeidah? And would you recommend that the UAE halt its operations--this is primarily a UAE operation--to give negotiations a chance?

I think it is unfair for you to leave this committee or the Congress with the impression that this is about balancing domestic needs with international leadership because it is not that we are spending less money globally, it is that the…

I simply do not understand because as I read the challenges presented to the United States, I get that there are certainly conventional military challenges that are different today than might have existed 10 years ago.

Similarly, I worry that we are creating an impression that these hospitals are providing less uncompensated care, less charity care when they are, in fact, providing much more charity care.

I think one of our frustrations in this Administration is that there is often an attempt to try to find a solution for a problem that does not exist.

I would argue that if you look at the evidence, it will not point you in the direction of arming teachers.

I think it is incumbent on us to ensure that those students have a safe and secure environment to attend school, to learn, and I maintain that.

We should have a Federal civil rights law. All students should be protected by that under the same standard.

I think that is a hard case to be made, given the reality of the conflict on the ground in Yemen, that our involvement has made things better for the Yemeni people.

But, why continue to be part of this coalition if we have no effect on the most important decisions?

So, why were we not successful in convincing them to refrain from an assault on Hudaydah?