Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"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?"

"In other words, their interest was public image, sportswashing, cleansing their reputation. 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."

"That is why we are conducting this investigation and why we will broaden it, as appropriate, to include other institutions and other repressive regimes and their potential impact on our institutions."