05/15/2023
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"I think if not the proximate cause of the ISIL movement, certainly one of the primary drivers of the ISIL movement was the abuses of the Assad regime."
"There is no question it would create risk."
"I do believe that is absolutely in our National interest to do that, Senator."
"There is no question in my mind that the young men and women that we have deployed right now... are protecting our Nation."