Dick Durbin: “But not the substance of your discussions?”

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

The lowering of the FBI's hiring standards "threaten[s] to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau's integrity.

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

These authorities require you to apply economic pressure on Russia and the chief enablers of its war, in particular China, and thereby enhance your negotiating position to bring a swift end to this ruinous conflict.