"I don't think that's a legal conclusion that I can or should reach tonight but I think President Biden and many of us in the Senate have been pressing for changes in policy and practice."
"This is what keeps me up at night, is a number of very capable foreign terrorist organizations that see this."
"I am very concerned about the threat to our Forces, posed by low, slow--exactly, the low technology drones that Iran is providing to Russia at scale."
"I regret that the significant investment that we made there will not likely redound to our benefit."
"I enacted the Global Fragility Act (GFA) 4 years ago with 26 bipartisan cosponsors in order to prevent violence and promote stability."
"We have widespread, I think, bipartisan grave concern about whether our defense system overall is appropriately aligned with the requirements of the war fighter."
"I'm concerned we're not learning the lessons of the war in Ukraine."
"A big piece of the NDIS (National Defense Industrial Strategy) partnering and our allies. AUKUS Pillar 2 is particularly intriguing to me."
"I look forward to staying in touch and I will echo what you heard from several other Senators about the urgency of deploying the counter UAS platforms at speed that are effective and affordable."
"I have three committee hearings at the same time, really grave concerns about Force protection and the countering the drone threat."
"the Global Fragility Act, 5 years ago President Trump signed into law a bill that Senator Graham and I worked on for years."
"I would urge you to engage in providing even modest resources to Coastal West Africa."