Mark Meadows actually said...

"Ambassador Patterson, thank you for your service. Truly, the Egyptian people know that you love and care for them and I just want to say thank you for doing that."

"It is still difficult to go home and talk about aid to the Palestinians, you know, and $400 million plus when we have their minister of prisons saying that the people in prison--terrorists--are heroes..."

"At what point, when we continue to just send money and send money and send money and never take it away, does the leverage of the money that we send them stop being a leverage?"

"Can we send a very clear message that unless this stops the money will stop?"