If Dubai ports is divesting itself of all American aspects of the contract, this is over. We can all go forward. There's no acrimony. There's no more problem.

it is a first step, but this battle is by no means over.

in his 14 years in Congress, he has never had as many calls in his office as he has on this single issue.

I would not want a Pakistani company, though, working on our ports, because I know -- and all of us know -- there is still a large Taliban influence in the Pakistan government, in the Pakistan intelligence agencies.

The law that is on the books now is pre-9/11. It's geared toward encouraging foreign investment. It's not geared towards stopping terrorism.

This is, potentially, having an enemy within our perimeter.

Only partly. It actually raises more concerns. It shows that the committee looking at it did have concerns about this company, you know, enough concerns to put these conditions on them.

We welcome a full investigation.

the president should freeze the contract until a full investigation is conducted.

When you're talking to an African-American audience on Martin Luther King Day, and you accuse the opposition of running a plantation, that definitely is using the race card.

That definitely is using the race card. It definitely has racist connotations. She knows it.