I appreciate the fact you recognize the overlap and the potential conflicts and most importantly, again, just the notion that accountability is necessary for us to be sure we are covering our bases with regard to this growing threat that…

Seeing the recent photographs of Bakhmut are heartbreaking. That part of the country has been utterly destroyed by Russia's brutal assaults.

Your leadership and commitment to public service is inspirational, particularly with the national security challenges facing our country.

I have concerns with the influence of Russia and China in Hungary and I would like to hear from you today about the dynamic and ways in which the United States can work to counter this.

the untold suffering that is occurring in Ukraine

I note that the NATO meeting coming up will have the heads of state from countries like South Korea and Japan and Australia and New Zealand attending.

We have record levels of people, drugs, coming across the border.

I said that the U.S. should work with our allies and partners to remove Russia from the Security Council.

We do not take advantage of these relatively pro-democracy pro-U.S. center and center right governments enough.

It is a good model to emulate.

I hope you will, should you be confirmed--I think you will be--once you are there that you will dig into this issue and give us advice as to how those sanctions can be effectively tightened.

I want to hear what we are going to do to try to help Estonia even more to push back on again the threats that they are facing, including cyber threats.