Dan Coats: “The risk of interstate conflict is higher than any time since the end of the Cold War.”

One of the first things you can do--at this hearing, even--is to make a strong statement of support for professionalism in the IC and pledge that you will not tolerate politics influencing the analytical process.

We need to inform the American public that this is real, that is going to be happening and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. And I…

Our democracy's enemies, foreign and domestic, want us to concede in advance that our voting systems are faulty or fraudulent, that sinister conspiracies have distorted the political will of the people, that our public discourse has been…

Trump doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.