Dan Coats: “first, I want to commend my colleague, my partner on the Senate Intelligence Committee, for his recent remarks delivered…”

“first, I want to commend my colleague, my partner on the Senate Intelligence Committee, for his recent remarks delivered here on the floor. It was our Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Clapper, who said that in all of his 50-plus years of serving in intelligence functions--first in the military and now as the Director of National Intelligence--he has never seen a world so troubled, he has never seen such a proliferation of threats, threats to our way of life, threats to our country, threats to our allies, threats to world order. And my colleague from Oklahoma, Senator Lankford, just laid out in specific detail the multitude of threats, the multitude of dysfunction and chaos that exists not just in the Middle East but throughout the world. I won't repeat any of it, but I thank him for bringing attention to the fact that we live in very uncertain times, times which require decisive leadership, and that leadership--over the years and over the centuries, world nations have pointed to the United States as the democratic leadership absolutely necessary to deal with these types of issues and provide directional leadership to our allies and to the world, as well as show strength to our adversaries that has restrained some of their actions. That is missing. There is a huge void being left by the lack of any kind of sensible policy--if there is a policy at all--coming out of this particular White House and from this President.…”