I do hold the State Department responsible for the failure to provide the information.

We are not going to outcompete China with our personnel sitting behind Embassy walls. They need to get out.

This means the Department cannot deliver on its ambitious agenda to open new embassies in places where we are directly contending with China.

You have to have that rigorous debate between the security professionals, between the people who are building, and we want to do this right.

I am tired of the Department slow walking key reforms that would improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

I am glad you are paying attention to it. It is the right thing to do.

Can you give me just a--I do not want a blah, blah, blah, answer.

I am not going to support anybody that was complicit in the horrific treatment of U.S. diplomats in China during COVID-19.

They deserve our best.

It appears to many of us that the Department under President Biden is more concerned with pursuing its own arbitrary DEI goals than results focused efforts to modernize its operations and work force.

We deserve to know whether Mr. Malley's crimes impacted U.S. Iran policy, influenced nuclear discussions, or swayed the President's decisions.

Our experts on the ground should make these decisions, not folks sitting 5,000 miles away in Washington.