James E. Risch: “You have got to escalate. If you do not escalate, you are going to lose.”

What is happening there today, as we speak, on the ground is unacceptable what the current authorities are doing against the people of Georgia.

I think it is incumbent upon us as we go forward to do that, and I commit to you that we will continue to pursue that.

I am proud of the work we did together to permanently authorize the Global Magnitsky authority.

When I did REPO, which you referred to, my biggest enemy was not Democrats. My biggest enemy was the Administration.