I think that we should continue to support that in every way we can, especially in those places where we are seeing famine as the result of manmade conditions.

I appreciate your commitment to that.

I think we do have some shared objectives in Syria. We face a common enemy in ISIS.

I look forward to seeing your ongoing efforts to continue to work to empower women because I think that is a critical piece of what we need to do and what we need to do if we are going to provide economic opportunities around the world.

I think is absolutely critical, and as we look at how do we raise the economic prosperity of countries around the world, we know that empowering women is a very important piece of that.

No country can rise if it is discriminating against any marginalized community. No country can be a vibrant democracy if it is not listening to all of its voices.

A little transparency and engagement I think would go a long way in reassuring people about what the intent is of the restructuring at the State Department.

Thank you. You have written that Israel's policy of schizophrenia of criticizing disloyal Arab citizens while simultaneously bestowing upon them the benefits of citizenship simply is not working.

We want to be part of that discussion.

Brexit certainly seems to be creating as many problems for Britain as it does for the EU at this point.

I want to follow up, Mr. Evanoff, because one of the things that we have seen recently is the Russians have harassed our embassy officials who are stationed in Russia.

My question was really, what kind of a message does that send to the rest of the world when we are not willing to accept people fleeing religious persecution in the United States?