Director Hoover symbolized the dangers of the weaponization of the Federal Government.

It is important that the old name not carry over. The FBI needs to be respected as an agency that does carry out its duties of being fair and just in administering justice.

A country that has shown contempt for international law to the point where its president has been indicted as a war criminal should not enjoy the benefit of international legal protections.

We are entering a new phase of strategic competition that is growing more fierce with each passing day.

Well, I do not think any one of us on the panel have--and we probably should have a better perspective on this than you might, but I am going to ask you the question. That is the authority I have, to ask the question. Why in the hell are they not doing it? What is holding up Blinken and Biden and Nod?

Speaker Mike Johnson is correct: Putin will not stop in Ukraine and threatens, really, the security of all of Europe.

Neither the free world nor Ukraine can afford further delays.

Janet Yellen said in October that she supports using some of the Russian--some of the income generated by the immobilized Russian assets to help Ukraine.

It would be a cruel irony to deny Ukraine the lifesaving benefit of these assets by invoking precedents for Russia's sovereignty and property rights when Russia is blatantly violating Ukraine's basic right to even exist.

I think what Russia is doing is a violation of international law and needs to be condemned at every opportunity possible.

Ukraine needs those assets now.