Jim Himes actually said...

"There are at least a half dozen people very close to this campaign who had a bizarrely intense set of ties with the Russians."

"The investigation certainly has ground to a halt."

"A midnight run to the White House that puzzles Republicans and Democrats alike by our chairman, who then does not turn around and give us answers, that's not a Democrat or Republican thing to do."

"You can surmise that the deputy attorney general was a particularly painful potential witness. She was apparently at the center of the whole Michael Flynn thing."