Chuck Hagel: “If confirmed, I will carry out the direction given to the Department in the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013.”

We had better pay attention to what our scientists, our intelligence people, our military leaders are saying how serious this is and the impact it is going to have.

One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.

No one person should ever govern a party. That’s not the point of political parties. Political parties must be diverse, have different opinions.

The Chinese are watching this as relates to Taiwan, the Iranians, the North Koreans -- all countries are watching this, and watching the U.S. response to it, and the West response to it.