When you have an authoritarian minded president, and his party in Congress refuses to hold him accountable, then one of the critical checks and balances is lost.

Vladimir Putin is doing the happy dance.

We have -- I hate to say this, we have a racist-in-chief in the White House.

National security is about keeping the American people safe. And we have lost over 200,000 Americans to COVID-19, and the vast majority of whom we have lost in substantial measure, because the President of the United States has failed in…

I think American voters who are focused on our international standing have to be extraordinarily dismayed. Poll after poll shows that our allies don't trust us, that our --the competence and approval of the people of our NATO partners is…

This was one of the most astonishing speeches I've heard him give. He talks about patriotic education. I thought I was listening to mouse a tongue, running communist China.

This president has lied. He has failed to prepare, and he's sought to divide us, and make us far less capable of countering this threat collectively.

By his own admission, by lying to the American people, we now know that Donald Trump surely has the blood of tens of thousands of Americans on his hands.

How can you make a decision, Jim, let's think about this. First of all, it's not important, then it's fake news, then it doesn't merit as attention but all of a sudden, he knows enough to know it doesn't merit action. This all does not add…

the most important thing in my mind and for this country is for Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States and for the Democrats to control the Senate as well as the House.

I believe he's not willing to confront Russia.

This President is derelict in his duty as commander in chief to brush off information that is critical to the life and death of our service members, and do so just because he doesn't want to hear bad news.

I have faith in our uniformed military. I have faith in the American defense establishment's readiness and desire to adhere to the norms and the laws of war.

You do need off-ramps. It's very hard to see where they might be in this context.

It's hard to see how diplomacy can be retrieved at this point.

The killing of Soleimani will require from the Iranian perspective a clear and definitive retaliation. And that retaliation could take any number of forms.

I think we need to be prepared for that possibility. And as I say, it's no certainty, but what's happened in the last several days and even frankly in the last several months, has led us on a course of increasing escalation that I'm quite…

And it is so much worse than I imagined. Every day, a lie, a disparagement, and a trashing of the institutions and the norms that we all believe have held us together.

We're handing over our Kurdish allies to slaughter. And that blood is going to be on Donald Trump's hands.

It's galling and it's disappointing.

But I think we're seeing it is really me first. And that is how he is governing. Everything is about him.

For the president to put his own self-interest, it seems, above the national interest of the United States, above the national security of the United States, which in so many instances, this just being the latest, seems to be his pattern…

It's crazy. Our adversaries are using espionage, including human intelligence assets against us every day.

The national security process has completely broken down.

It was an appalling judgment to invite the Taliban, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, to Camp David when they hadn't agreed to end the conflict with the Afghan government, much less talk to the Afghan government.