Jim DeMint: “Americans end up paying for programs that do not align with our national security and foreign policy objectives.”

Well, Anderson, this issue is much bigger than North Korea. We're now living in a world we've got to understand that North Korea is going to have nuclear weapons.

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

His proposal was so outlandish, I don't think we should go back to the table until he puts something there that we can work with.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.