Bob Menendez actually said...

"What kind of signal does this send to whistle-blowers, to leakers, and in the middle of the environment we're in right now, where we have a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the Russian h..."

"So there was lobbying here."

"I appreciate that. I would just say that in the public forum that you could read or any other citizen could read, it is pretty definitive by all of the intelligence agencies of what they did."

"I would hope you would do so, and I would be willing to hear your response for the record, because I think it is important."