Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"What other sources of funding did you explore?"

"Instead of accepting this amount of money--call it an investment, call it financing--from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, did you explore other sources of potential investment?"

"But you could go elsewhere for $1 billion, $3 billion, maybe $50 billion. Correct?"

"This effort to restrict, punish, torture, imprison, kill people who stand up for their beliefs is a growing worldwide phenomenon, and I would hope that it would unite us on a bipartisan basis."