Sam Brownback: “I do hope you get a lot more aggressive on looking at this deficit. I don't want to see this crisis of confidence come…”

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

We have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

There are some good things happening.

The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.