What I want to do is kind of posit a view of it to you and see what you both think about it.

It was startling to watch pro-American graffiti on the walls, and people walking up to you on the streets and thanking America.

I think long term they want to defeat the United States.

I think that in a broader sense the trip was a major failure, demonstrating mostly that Iran has lost political ground in the hemisphere.

I called this hearing to sift through the facts, discuss with the experts before us what about Iran's relationship with the nations of our hemisphere should be of serious concern, and discern the appropriate United States response.

To thank Senator Rubio for arranging a Coast Guard briefing in Miami, and for his support and collaboration on a U.S.-Caribbean Border Security Initiative to overcome the crime and drug challenges facing PR.

I think they have been upgraded to a Tier 2.

In addition to a deforestation problem on that border, there is the reality that on that border you can buy a child, that there are children that are trafficked and sold as child prostitutes both into the Dominican Republic and in those…

We are very supportive of the autonomous region of the north, and you are absolutely right, has progressed in many ways.

my opinion is it ought to be one of our priorities, because one of the things that could really slow up the miracle that's happening there and that kind of economic growth is if they have to divert resources to fighting off--

I do not think that would be our position.

I just hope that the administration, and it would be through you, is going to make it very clear to Mr. Ortega that if he wants to say these sorts of things that embarrass him with his own people, that's one thing, but there are some…