Lindsey Graham

I thank the Senator. To follow on what Senator Wicker said, I have been trying to find out how this started to begin with too. Whose good idea was this? So I called the Secretary of Defense, and he said: We did not do this. I talked to…

Can we expect Assad to be in power this time next year?

If Jordan and Lebanon for some reason said, 'Hey, we can't handle it?'

It would be good for the Congress to understand the totality of the impact here.

I think we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands of almost biblical proportions here.

This ugly war is still going on.

Unsustainable without help. Don't you think?

What do you need to handle the Syrian crisis country by country?

I can't think of a more important time for the Congress to be engaged when it comes to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the entire region.

My time is about up. But I'd like to end with: where are we going to go?

What we need to do is to ensure that Jordan does not suffer any more than what it has.

He loses that authority. Mrs. McCASKILL. That case to Washington--that soldier is not going to agree to nonjudicial punishment. He is going to say: I will take my chances with the lawyers in Washington. And if the lawyers in Washington say…

That is exactly right. A nonjudicial punishment is an authority the commander has to put people in confinement for up to 30 days, reduce in rank one or two levels, depending on the rank of the commander, and to withhold pay. It is…

Yes. Mrs. McCASKILL. I want to make sure I understand something about nontraditional punishment. Since the Senator is discussing the barracks thief in Afghanistan and the notion that everything is going to stop and this case is going to be…

Well, I think it is pretty obvious the tensions are growing, and not just with Israel. I believe the Obama administration's eagerness to reach a deal is unnerving to the people in the region, and not just Israel. The Israelis and the Sunni…

I am here to say that, in 2013, November 2013, the game changed in a way that I think Mr. Hamilton would be very disappointed in.

This week, South Carolina's senator, Lindsey Graham, threatened to hold off all presidential nominees for federal offices until those survivors are provided.

The Federal Government would have to demonstrate that at the moment of the violent encounter, Mr. Zimmerman behaved as he did as a function of racial animus.

If you believe that Mr. Martin was on top of Mr. Zimmerman inflicting punishment, that would be a different view.

I do not--I hope this does not turn into the Republicans are for it and the Democrats are against it.

I do not believe in their mind at the time they signed these laws into law that they felt that that is what they were doing.

Thank you. I would argue we can't possibly understand all he knows about Benghazi in the last 20 years of terrorism by holding him on a ship for less than 2 weeks. He should be held at Gitmo as long as it takes to find out what he knows…

We also know him to be one of the higher level Al Qaeda operatives roaming the planet. He was involved in bombing our Embassies in 1998 in Kenya and Tanzania; is that correct?

We believe he was in Libya before the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, right?

If the Senator from New Hampshire will yield for one more inquiry. He was captured in Tripoli, Libya; is that right?