Ben Cardin

I take it that was just a mistake, you didn't really mean that.

Do you acknowledge this is a serious issue? And how do you plan to address the morale issue?

There have been some really disturbing trends that I want to talk about in regard to the work force.

My advice to you is, make sure it is in collaboration with the workers and their representatives.

The NRC is pretty special to those of us in Maryland, since you are headquartered in our State.

The Embassy had connectivity with about 5,000 Americans.

How confident are you about us being able to get humanitarian assistance into Sudan?

Do we have an estimate as to how many Americans are interested in leaving Sudan that are there today?

The notifications that you are talking about, could you just explain what notifications were given to Americans, I guess, after April 15?

We really do need to figure out how we can staff these challenging missions with adequate resources to have the attention we need to avoid conflicts.

I see Russia and China just putting so much resources into our hemisphere, every time we travel, we see it.

Let me thank you for your dedication to this mission.

That is sometimes difficult politically to do, but we have to have a way in which we can try to make those decisions.

We are seeing the growth of a new weapon that is being used against our democratic institutions, and it is called disinformation.

Let me just observe, first of all, that Ms. Bennett, you are still here. Thank you.

We should be nimble enough to adjust to current priorities.

If the resources are not being adequately used or are not being coordinated well, it is compromising our ability to accomplish the mission.

Should we be having a similar type of priority organization in those two regions of the world?

We know what China is up to, and it is not in our National Security interests to allow their disinformation to move unchallenged.

We did not realize that Russia would invest so much in news as they are investing and preparing to do more.

Thank you for your steadfast support of independent media.

You could use additional resources in order to counter the influence in our own hemisphere.

We should be alarmed about this, but still optimistic.

We cannot move as quickly as our adversaries can move.

I just really want to add one other dimension to these ghost networks.