If the Senator will yield, I am trying to find the press statement of the White House official that says the President has consulted with his national security team--I am paraphrasing--about the threats we face throughout the world and…

Yes, we did. Now here we are, years later, and the families have no clue as to what happened to their loved ones. Quit blaming the dead guy. This suggestion that Chris Stevens had fault for his own death--Chris Stevens was in Benghazi…

I think the White House, in my view--this is a reasonable conclusion but not a fair conclusion because we don't know exactly what happened yet. But I can tell you this: Somebody at the White House on September 14 pressured the intelligence…

I thank my colleague for the question. I finally got to interview a survivor about a month or so ago with Senators Menendez and Corker. I have only been able to interview one witness after all of these years and months. If I could, I wish…

Do you believe if we had had the NSA capabilities in effect in September 2001 that we have today there's a high likelihood that we would have intercepted the attack on September 11?

On paper it's a high-risk strategy?

There is absolutely no reason for any American politician to believe that we're not welcome to stay in Afghanistan?

I would urge you to go visit. It is probably the crown jewel of criminal justice in that part of the world, and it is a very modern facility, well run.

Let us fast forward to January 2017. How many do we expect to have given the current plan?

The NSA program is designed to protect us against an enemy who is hell-bent on attacking our Nation at home and throughout the world, do you agree with that?

If they could attack any place in the world, the top priority would probably be here at home?

To defeat the insurgency, they have to believe they are going to get killed or captured.

Is it fair to say that when we accepted each plane into the fleet--the operational tempo has been really unprecedented since World War II probably, and that when it comes time to evaluate our future needs, we're flying the wings off of…

The only way we'll be able to detect what they're up to is to be able to access these commercial networks in a reasonable fashion?

Do you see by the end of 2016 any reasonable possibility that the al Qaeda types...will be contained?

If they cannot get through this election process to show the Afghan people and the rest of the world that they have done this political transfer of power peacefully, then right now the coalition forces will not continue to stay there after…

The forces that attacked our country on September 11--they had safe haven in Afghanistan.

She couldn't be on TV to talk about what happened in the State Department because she was distraught? I don't buy that. Does anybody believe that about Secretary Clinton? And if it's true, it's something the American people need to…

If we cannot rely on the Afghans and the Pakistani elements to defend America from a regenerated al Qaeda-type force... the line of defense that America enjoys today is going to vanish if something does not change.

The threat we face is very real.

Do you agree with me that the only way to deter them is to prevent them from attacking us, because killing them is not a deterrent?

A lot's at stake, right?

if that doesn't happen I'd be the first one to say to get the hell out of there.

Let us just lay out the plan for the American people.

Let us look at Afghanistan as a line of defense for America.