Bob Corker: “You do want to make sure it is as insulated as possible from any type of influences.”

I thank the Senator from New Jersey and our distinguished ranking member for his question and for working with me to pass this important legislation. ____________________

I can understand from the people's perspective that are doing this why they would want to go forward. And I understand that.

The question is, why would you say you're going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to Turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do…

This was one of the biggest foreign policy blunders that I can remember, maybe the biggest.