Ed Markey

I think we need to look at those types----

There is no evidence to the contrary.

I am afraid that at this point the United States--the Trump administration is being taken for a ride.

I am talking about not trusting Kim Jong Un without verifying North Korea's actions.

Is there any verifiable evidence of progress towards denuclearization?

I am just going back to the statement made by President Trump that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, and I am just trying to determine what that means.

Has North Korea committed to halting its human rights abuses?

Have they committed to destroying their biological weapons?

Have they committed to destroying chemical weapons stockpiles?

Yes, they continue to produce fissile material.

They are continuing to use the Kim family playbook going back to his grandfather where they frontload rewards to themselves while exploiting ambiguity and delaying real concessions to the United States and to the West.

President Trump is claiming that North Korea is, quote, no longer a nuclear threat. And we do know that is absolutely not true.

I find him to be misleading and untruthful.

We need comprehensive strategies across the world because the result of the lack thereof is chaos and confusion or even worse.

I remain deeply concerned by the administration's incoherent and contradictory views.

We have to encourage the purchase of domestically caught wild fish over fish from foreign fish farms.

We want to make sure that all the offshore drilling safety rules, the well-control rules, are all at the strongest possible level in order to protect our economy.

This seafood largely comes from countries who do not have laws like the United States that create sustainability, managed fisheries, such as Thailand.

We would run all the risks and get very little of the benefits. That is, we are not an oil or natural gas economy. We are a--we are an economy of tourism and fishing.

Could you commit to giving us the results of the comparability study by September 15 of this year?

For New England, it really makes no sense for us to be talking about drilling off of our coastline, when the fishing and tourism are the life's blood of our economy, and any oil spill would have devastating consequences already--on an…

Senator Wicker and I worked with NOAA to create this program, which provides transparency and traceability for certain imported seafood products.

I think that being in the Human Rights Council does help because it is the organizing principle.

I do not think any and all is accurate. I do not think we have any evidence the President is using his leverage with President Xi to communicate our values at the highest level.

We have high expectations for you, but we have higher expectations for Donald Trump to express those views clearly, concisely, powerfully, insistently, and persistently with the Chinese leadership.