Dan Coats: “What's happening in the Middle East, I think, has all of us raising questions about something I guess we didn't think we…”

I would argue that ours is not working very well and it is--at the moment.

The evidence is overwhelming. It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016.

We do not believe Iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device.

I can confirm that one of my staffers who was aware of the controversy requested that I modify that assessment, but I said no. No, we need to stick to what the analysts have said.