Mark Kirk: “It increasingly looks like we're not. And with the cash flow problems of the Japanese Government, I would have a pretty…”

I am dismayed that... not once did the Administration ever share that this was a pending item and/or that it was in the midst of a potential negotiation.

DJT, Donald Jonathan Trump, he's a malignant clown, a malignant clown unprepared and unfit to be president of the United States.

I am disappointed that we do not have a representative from the Administration here today.

I am always concerned about what our policy is in the world as it relates to how we deal with achieving the release of hostages.