Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"It is about how a brutal, repressive regime can buy influence--indeed even take over--a cherished American institution to cleanse its public image."

"But there is something that stinks about this path that you are on right now because it is a surrender, and it is all about the money, and that is the reason for the backlash that you have seen."

"But will you commit that it will not have it, that you will not agree to it if it does?"

"If any person had the remotest connection to an attack on our country and the murder of my friends, I am the last guy that would be sitting at a table with them."