Michael Waltz

At the same time, that same woman who broke all of those barriers was quite offended when a classmate of mine, who is African American, got a scholarship, I didn't.

I have served in countries all over the world where woman aren't disadvantaged, they are brutalized.

Frankly, a lot of the folks in this place also have Marxist backgrounds.

We are a country where our ideal has been merit.

So I think what we are going back to and I think the disconnect here and that you will find with the thrust of your program and in my experience and Representative Mills is what we are talking about really is poverty and how we address…

Are they privileged systemically?

We have to self identify.

I represent one of the poorest counties in Florida.

Equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place.

If you had done--if the State Department had done their job, you would not have veterans groups exhausting their savings, exhausting their kids' 529 plans, getting divorced, committing suicide because of the people we left behind.

But if you look at how long it is going to take to process those that were left behind, they do not have another year or two to hide from the Taliban.

It will take 18 years to process that many visas. These people are being hunted down by the Taliban right now, as we speak. Despite the President and your boss, the Secretary, lauding this as an outstanding success, it was an absolute…

It sounds like they are not moving fast enough, at least to meet the demand.

At 587 days of delay?

I think it is one of the most consequential economic, diplomatic, security relationships we have in the 21st century.

What are we doing to fix this?

How is it Hillary Clinton can delete 33,000 government emails on a private server yet President Trump gets indicted for having documents he could declassify?

Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing.

I look forward to working with you, and I think we need a tiger team here in the Congress to peel back these layers and understand where we can accelerate authorities.

The fact that you're not slapping the table saying, it's not happening, Mr. Congressman, I can tell you that, I think would be outrageous to every American, and I can tell you that this House, this committee, will seek to cut those funds…

I would look forward to the committee coming back to me with real systems, not kind of a hope and a prayer on third party monitoring in, essentially, a denied space.

I think we should go to default consensus, and particularly if the Defense Department has serious national security concerns.

It needs to be based on data, not what we think is going on.

I don't think these conversations are silly at all. I think they are fundamental to the type of fighting force that we have.

What are we doing to change that, to make sure that the demographics of our military represent the demographics of our country at all levels?