Joe Donnelly actually said...

"I am very confident in our ship captains and in our crews for them to deal with the situation."

"We cannot fight our way out of it. What we have to do is to try to give them hope and dignity and purpose I guess."

"I think your idea of complete transparency, here is what we are doing, here is what we are working on, here is how we plan to do it and to try to cooperate as much as we can with other countries, but ..."

"We must prepare for the worst case."