James Lankford: “We don't have that authority right now as the United States. We've reached crisis points.”

Chairman, really, this is a question for you. And it’s a question to try to figure out how do we get a good answer on this.

Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving.

It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists. It’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in.

You have handled terrorism cases coming straight out of Iran and threats that have come to us. For 47 years, the United States and American citizens all around the world have faced terrorism threats from Iran and the growth of the proxy…